[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 19, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S722]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    SUPERVISOR ANDREA MEAD LAWRENCE

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, today I would like to honor Andrea 
Mead Lawrence, who is retiring from the Mono County Board of 
Supervisors after 16 years of distinguished service to her 
constituents.
  Andrea personifies the great American tradition of public service 
that is the backbone of our governmental system. As a County 
Supervisor, she was a member of the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution 
District since 1984, serving as its chairman in 1989, 1993 and 1996. 
She played a key role in that capacity in the negotiations with the 
City of Los Angeles that will lead to reversing the worst particulate 
air pollution problem in the United States, cause by the dry bed of 
Owens Lake in Southern Inyo County.
  She also successfully worked with others for the restoration of Mono 
Lake and its priceless ecosystem. In that and other efforts, she 
testified before Congress in support of creation of the Mono Basin 
National Forest Scenic Area to save Mono Lake. Over the years she also 
testified before Congress on behalf of the Bodie Protection Act, the 
San Joaquin Wilderness Act, and the California Desert Protection Act. 
Andrea was the founder of Friends of Mammoth, a citizen's advocacy 
group that was formed to fight environmentally damaging development in 
the Town of Mammoth Lakes, her home. She also founded the Southern Mono 
Historical Society.
  Understanding that regional problems require grassroots and local 
involvement to bring effective long term solutions, Andrea was a co-
founder and Past President of the Sierra Nevada Alliance, a group 
dedicated to the preservation of the ``Range of Light'' and its 
economy.
  Her public involvement is seemingly endless and certainly on going. 
Early in her career she distinguished herself as a member of the United 
States Olympic Ski Team in 1948, 1952, and 1956. In 1952 she won two 
Olympic Gold Medals in the Slalom and Giant Slalom in the Olympic Games 
in Oslo, Norway.
  Andrea Mead Lawrence exemplifies so much that is good in America. I 
wish her and her family all the best as she enters a new and productive 
part of her life.

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